A conversation I had last night with my wife. Sent the screenshot via messages.

"Tik tok?"
Look above it
"Elephant app?”
What did we do this week?
"I know you launched an app but what's the elephant have to do with it?"

@paul LOL. Does she know what you do for a living?? 🤔
@paul “That elephant will buy your next birthday present!”
@paul We started selling tickets for the zoo.
@paul 😀 Does she know what you do to bring home the bacon? lol I love your wife. 🥓🐘💕
@DianneLittle @paul Mmmm, elephant bacon! Wait, that’s probably unethical!
@paul it's why we live indoors, honey 🤣🤣🤣
@paul Thank you. You’re making my geek-fueled interactions with my non-geek wife feel normal again. Relieved it wasn’t just me. 😂
@paul Gotta appreciate spouses for helping keep us grounded. 😂
@paul LOL, really? You need better internal marketing.
@paul to be fair to your wife though, she's correct. mastodon's were a little different https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Mastodon
Wikiwand - Mastodon

A mastodon is any proboscidean belonging to the extinct genus Mammut . Mastodons inhabited North and Central America during the late Miocene or late Pliocene up to their extinction at the end of the Pleistocene 10,000 to 11,000 years ago. They lived in herds and were predominantly forest-dwelling animals. They generally had a browsing diet, distinct from that of the contemporary Columbian mammoth, which tended towards grazing. M. americanum, the American mastodon, and M. pacificus, the Pacific mastodon, are the youngest and best-known species of the genus. Mastodons disappeared from North America as part of a mass extinction of most of the Pleistocene megafauna, widely believed to have been caused by a combination of climate changes at the end of the Pleistocene and overexploitation by Paleo-Indians.

Wikiwand

@paul I am dead! 🤣

My partner will often get asked what I do and she’ll usually say something like “he sits in front of his computer all day and sometimes talks a rubber duck for like 30 minutes at a time, then somehow, he gets a paycheck”

@paul If she can’t support your work: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=divorce+laywers+flower+mound+tx&t=iphone&ia=web

(Joking of course)

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@paul Biggest takeaway: normal users are seeing the featured apps as ads and auto-filtering them out of their mind.
@paul 🤦🏻‍♂️ it’s ok, I’m sure she makes up in everything else!
@paul that’s awesome. 🤣
@paul at least she didn’t say “yes I already have Bumble, what about it?”

@paul couple questions:

If we're in testflight would you recommend switching to the early access option or is it valuable to still have people using the test verison?

If we're current tweetbot subscribers, does canceling our subscriptions impact you financially in any way, or does it just prevent it from renewing? I've been told it's only a negative impact if you request a refund, which I'm not doing.

Thanks for making awesome software!

@thinkontheclock feel free to cancel, but we've already removed it from sale so it won't renew anyways (even though for whatever reason it doesn't indicate it on the subscription screen).
@paul All we get in the U.K. is bloody Joe Wicks, CONSTANTLY!
@karim Can’t move for Joe Wicks around here…
@pandapoo Poor you! I’m pretty certain at this point that Tim Apple has a crush on him, he’s featured every other week on the App Store.
@karim Tim and all of the women in my life it would seem! 😂
@paul Only Germans could come up with such a stupid name.
@paul “did you have fun playing your game?”
@paul well, at least she didn’t ask about Bumble!
@paul elephant is mightier than the bird.
@paul my wallet and I wish you continued success. 💸
@paul …. sounds like some work for the marketing dept. 🤭

@paul Please use full and accurate Alt Text or image descriptions for all images and videos you post.

And I hope that's been added to your app already, which I saw was on the roadmap.

@paul she sure knows how to keep you humble.
@paul how to read ”local feed” of another instances?
@paul My husband (whom also follows you) can no doubt relate. 😳Just know that she’s incredibly proud of your talent and efforts despite being foggy on the details. Congratulations on launching ivory. It’s made mastodon an acceptable substitute for twitter. Kudos.
@paul This post made me love more my wife now. My daughter and me are a couple of ADHD beings that drive her crazy everyday. Tell your wife she’s not alone. #ADHDUnited

Please tell your wife that you and this cute elephant changed my life!

Sending you much love from Germany!

@paul

@paul I think this proves your wife is not an elephant. 😂
@paul excellent! You’re doing great things, we’re all behind you Paul 👍
@paul elephant insufficiently robotic looking
@paul I feel this, my wife has no idea what I do either just says IT 😂
@paul FWIW, it was the cute elephant that made me go Premium. 😆 More Ivory, please. Congratulations on the app! Well done.
@paul happy to be using rn 🫡
@paul it is too bad the promo doesn’t make it clearer what the app is if you don’t already know what Mastodon is. Very cool though!
@paul my wife offers a similar level of interest and engagement with my profession. 😜
@paul haha love you too, honey!